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I can’t believe it’s already halfway through September. Time really does fly! Actually, I’m having a good time so maybe that helps. Even though I’m not recieving a salary, I am working hard on art, and having a lot of fun with D&D and games in my spare time. I’m looking at other art jobs to do after this one gets done (which may yet be a while), so in the art field I’m not too worried about employment. What does suck employment-wise is that the art jobs I’m doing pay very little, and only after all the work is done… so it’s not a reliable source of income. That means that I still have to find a part-time job to earn a little cash while I work at being a starving artist. I’ve only had a couple of job interviews since graduating, mostly due to the fact that I was going to Vancouver in August so it didn’t make a lot of sense to look for jobs before then, and right now I’m working so hard on my art that I haven’t even had time to look for other jobs.

It’s been over a week since the interview, and I still haven’t heard back from the Japan group about the job I interviewed for. My emails to them are unanswered (I chose email over phone because they prefered email for just about everything else), so I’m assuming that’s a sign that I didn’t get the job. I’m actually only slightly upset about not getting the job; what stinks more is not being told that I didn’t get the job. What I’ve noticed is that every place that has ever rejected my application has done so without notifying me. I’m wondering if this is normal business practice, or if I’m just unlucky. I would understand it from big places that revieve too many applications to respond to each person, but I’ve been in a lot of situations where it was down to me and a handful or people (in this case, one other person), yet still no phonecall or anything telling me I didn’t get the job. That’s probably the worst thing about not getting a job… Rejection isn’t so hard to take; it’s not knowing and being ignored as if you weren’t worth a response that starts to grate on the nerves. But I’m not at that stage yet — it’s a real nice group of people there, so there’s a possibily that they just have been really busy. Hopefully I’ll still hear back from them one way or another.

I went to a bonfire last night and my hair still smells like burnt wood. Mmm! How can you not love that smell!?